Geography and Dialects

Learn more about prefectures, islands, dialects and more.

HokkaidoAkitaAomoriIwateMiyagiYamagataFukushimaChibaTokyoTochigiSaitamaKanagawaIbarakiGunmaAichiFukuiGifuIshikawaNaganoNiigataShizuokaToyamaYamanashiHyogoKyotoMieNaraOsakaShigaWakayamaHiroshimaOkayamaShimaneTottoriYamaguchiEhimeKagawaKochiTokushimaFukuokaKumamotoKagoshimaMiyazakiNagasakiOkinawaOitaSaga
Main Islands

Hokkaido

Honshu

Shikoku

Kyushu

Regions

Hokkaido

Tohoku

Kanto

Chubu

Kansai

Chugoku

Shikoku

Kyushu / Okinawa

Prefectures

Hokkaido

Aomori

Iwate

Miyagi

Akita

Yamagata

Fukushima

Ibaraki

Tochigi

Gunma

Saitama

Chiba

Tokyo

Kanagawa

Niigata

Toyama

Ishikawa

Fukui

Yamanashi

Nagano

Gifu

Shizuoka

Aichi

Mie

Shiga

Kyoto

Osaka

Hyogo

Nara

Wakayama

Tottori

Shimane

Okayama

Hiroshima

Yamaguchi

Tokushima

Kagawa

Ehime

Kochi

Fukuoka

Saga

Nagasaki

Kumamoto

Oita

Miyazaki

Kagoshima

Okinawa

Dialects

Kagoshima

Hichiku

Honichi

Chugoku

Umpaku

Shikoku

Kansai

Hokuriku

Tokai-Tosan

Kanto

Tokyo

Hokkaido

Tohoku

Ryukyuan Languages

Hachijo

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